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Mary Cowan obituaryhttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/16/mary-cowan-obituary
<p>My friend Mary Cowan, who has died aged 99, rebelled against her privileged background and in the 1930s became a communist.</p><p>She was born in Edinburgh, where her father, John Jameson, was the Conservative MP for Edinburgh West. Her mother, Margaret (nee Smith), was the daughter of a master of Balliol College, Oxford. Descended from the Forster family which had owned Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland, Mary and her cousins lived in the castle during holidays.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/16/mary-cowan-obituary">Continue reading...</a>ScotlandPoliticsEdinburghVietnamMorning StarMon, 16 Dec 2013 13:17:22 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/16/mary-cowan-obituaryPhotograph: public domainMary Cowan translated Vietnamese poetry from French into English. She also wrote her own poemsPhotograph: public domainMary Cowan translated Vietnamese poetry from French into English. She also wrote her own poemsKate Clark2013-12-16T13:17:22ZJosé Miguel Varas obituaryhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/oct/18/jose-miguel-varas-obituary
Chilean author and broadcaster in exile during Pinochet's rule<p>José Miguel Varas, who has died aged 83, was one of Chile's best known and most prolific writers. His first novel, Cahuín (Binge), was published in 1946, when he was 18, and was followed by more than 20 others, as well as collections of short stories and biographies. In 2006 he was awarded Chile's national prize for literature.</p><p>He died on the 38th anniversary of the death of the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. José Miguel's books Nerudario (1999) and Neruda Clandestino (Clandestine Neruda, 2003) contain many interesting episodes and anecdotes from the time they spent together in Chile and Prague, where Neruda, who took his name from a 19th-century Czech poet, asked José Miguel to translate Jan Neruda's poems into Spanish for him. José Miguel – always extremely modest – declined, saying his Czech wasn't up to the task.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/oct/18/jose-miguel-varas-obituary">Continue reading...</a>ChileAmericasWorld newsAugusto PinochetCommunismBooksCultureMediaBBCTue, 18 Oct 2011 17:19:29 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/oct/18/jose-miguel-varas-obituaryPhotograph: Archivo/NotimexJosé Miguel Varas wrote extensively about his friendship with Pablo Neruda. Photograph: Archivo/NotimexPhotograph: Archivo/NotimexJosé Miguel Varas wrote extensively about his friendship with Pablo Neruda. Photograph: Archivo/NotimexKate Clark2011-10-18T17:19:29ZLuís Corvalán obituaryhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/aug/15/luis-corvalan-obituary
Chilean Communist party leader jailed by General Pinochet<p>Luís Corvalán, who has died aged 93, led the Communist party of Chile for more than 30 years and was one of the main architects of the Unidad Popular (Popular Unity) alliance of parties on the left that achieved the historic victory of the Socialist party's Salvador Allende in the 1970 presidential election. Corvalán will be remembered in the west as a high-profile prisoner in General Augusto Pinochet's regime of terror; in 1976, he was exchanged for the Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky.</p><p>Born in Pelluco, near Puerto Montt, in southern Chile, Corvalán studied in Tomé and graduated as a primary school teacher in Chillán in 1934. Of humble origins, he joined the Communist party of Chile in 1932 and wrote for its papers Frente Popular (Popular Front) and El Siglo (The Century). His vision was a Chile governed for the people and by the people. His consistent aim was to achieve maximum unity among all those who favoured a more just society.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/aug/15/luis-corvalan-obituary">Continue reading...</a>ChileAugusto PinochetCommunismRussiaEuropeSun, 15 Aug 2010 16:59:23 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/aug/15/luis-corvalan-obituaryPhotograph: Fernando Nahuel/EFE FILELuis Corvalan in January this year. Photograph: Fernando Nahuel/EPAPhotograph: Fernando Nahuel/EFE FILELuis Corvalan in January this year. Photograph: Fernando Nahuel/EPAKate Clark2010-08-15T16:59:23ZObituary: Volodia Teitelboimhttps://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/feb/14/culture.obituaries
Stalwart of the Chilean Communist party, friend of Allende and award-winning writer<p>Volodia Teitelboim, who has died aged 91, was a leading Chilean Communist party (CCP) intellectual, a prolific writer and winner of that country's national prize for literature in 2002. A friend and rival since the 1930s of Pablo Neruda, fellow communist and 1971 Nobel prizewinner for literature, Volodia served on the CCP political committee from his 20s until his death, and was its general secretary from 1989 to 1994.</p><p>Born Valentín Teitelboim Volosky, in Chillán, 500km south of Santiago, to Ukrainian/Moldovan/Jewish parents, he decided to call himself Volodia, as Lenin was known familiarly. From an early age, he was widely respected for his erudition, courtesy and temperate language. He graduated as a lawyer from the University of Chile but, already a communist, was drawn into the campaign to elect the progressive Frente Popular (Popular Front) government, led by Pedro Aguirre Cerda from 1938 to 1941. He became a friend of Salvador Allende, with whom he spent years in parliament, first as deputy for Valparaíso from 1961 to 1965, then as senator for Santiago from 1965 until the 1973 military coup.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/feb/14/culture.obituaries">Continue reading...</a>BooksCultureChileWorld newsThu, 14 Feb 2008 00:03:15 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/feb/14/culture.obituariesKate Clark2008-02-14T00:03:15ZObituary: Otto Lacishttps://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/nov/24/guardianobituaries.russia
Journalist at the hub of Gorbachev's economic reforms<p>He was the son of Latvian communists; his father had fought in the Latvian division of the International Brigade, but, being unable to return home after the republican defeat in Spain, had been repatriated to Moscow. Otto thus grew up in the Soviet capital and considered himself Russian, though he had close ties with Riga, where much of his family continued to live.</p><p>He always saw the Communist party as the instrument through which change could be effected. In 1962, when I first met him and his wife Tamara, their mood matched that of the country as a whole: communism was going to beat the hell out of capitalism, economic growth was good and the new building programme was making inroads into the vast housing problem left by the second world war. But when the de-Stalinisation reform process was snuffed out, and its architect, Nikita Khrushchev, was ousted, Otto, like many other young party members, found himself with little possibility of changing anything.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/nov/24/guardianobituaries.russia">Continue reading...</a>RussiaWorld newsEuropeThu, 24 Nov 2005 00:01:33 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/nov/24/guardianobituaries.russiaKate Clark2005-11-24T00:01:33Z